Francine Mussey

Francine Mussey
Born	Marcelle Fromholt (1897-10-06)6 October 1897 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Died	23 March 1933(1933-03-23) (aged 35) Paris, Île-de-France, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1920–1932

Francine Mussey (6 October 1897 – 23 March 1933)^[1] was a French film actress whose career began in the silent film era of the 1920s and ended in 1933 when she committed suicide by ingesting poison at age 35.^[2]

Mussey was born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris as Marcelle Fromholt in 1897. She made her debut in the 1920 Lucien Lehmann-directed film L'épave, opposite actors Marcel Bonneau and Jean-François Martial. She would go on to appear in a number of films throughout the 1920s and into the sound film era of the early 1930s directed by Louis Feuillade, Gaston Ravel, Alexandre Ryder and Jean Daumery, among others.^[3] She appeared in the 1927 epic Napoléon^[4] which ran for five and a half hours.

Selected filmography[]

• The House of Mystery (1923)
• The Man in the Saddle (1925)
• Lady Harrington (1926)
• Napoleon (1927)
• The Woman Who Couldn't Say No (1927)
• Buridan's Donkey (1932)

References[]

External links[]

• Francine Mussey at IMDb

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